Imake.tmpl not found

Christopher Faylor cgf-idd@cygwin.com
Sun Aug 3 14:29:00 GMT 2003


On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 02:06:59AM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
>Damien,
>
>Huh... this is interesting.
>
>Turns out that Cygwin's tar doesn't work the same as the tar version 
>that is in the XFree86 souce tree in the utils module.  I built their 
>"gnu-tar" and used it to build the packages and it did include the 
>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config directory in the prog package, as it is 
>supposed to.  I tried messing with the Xprog-list and Xprog-excl files 
>to get Cygwin's tar to build the archive properly, but it just wouldn't 
>do it.  I will be uploading XFree86-prog-4.3.0-2.tar.bz2 shortly.

This is the first I've ever heard that cygwin's tar is unable to include
directories in a tar ball.  Since cygwin's tar is GNU tar, it's hard to
see why it would operate differently.

Do you have a specific failing case?
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